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How good is this spot for honey bees?

Enter an address or tap the map. You'll see which bee plants and crops are within flight range (about 3.7 miles, with nearer land counting more), when the honey flow comes and when there's a dearth, nearby water, a few things worth checking, and how the spot ranks against random sites in your state and across the country.

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The colors are the national forage map: every square kilometer of the lower 48, scored the same way. See the honey flow for your state and town, the best and worst spots we found, or how the scoring works.

Forage report for 35.4864, -110.4056

Estimated forage here is better than about 74% of sites in Arizona. Against other Arizona sites it stands out most in fall (90th percentile) and lowest in spring (67th). Nearest mapped water: open water, less than 0.1 mi away.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 14th percentile (spring 37th, summer 25th, fall 72nd)
  • Arizona: 74th percentile (spring 67th, summer 85th, fall 90th)
  • Arizona/New Mexico Plateau: 74th percentile (spring 81st, summer 66th, fall 59th)

Percentile among 3,000 random land points across Arizona, scored the same way; land in general, not beekeepers' yards.

Season

  • First forage: Mar 1 — Weedy mustards, Dandelion, Native wildflowers
  • Main flow: Apr 1 to Jul 15 — Spring-flowering shrubs, Summer-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers
  • Fall flow: Aug 1 to Oct 31 — Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Rubber rabbitbrush, Asters
  • Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

  • Spring honey (March to June): Spring-flowering shrubs, Summer-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers, Native wildflowers; light amber
  • Summer honey (July and August): Asters, Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Rubber rabbitbrush; amber
  • Fall honey (September to November): Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Rubber rabbitbrush, Asters, Rabbitbrush; dark amber
  • Whole season (March to November): Spring-flowering shrubs, Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Summer-flowering shrubs, Asters; amber

An estimate from public maps (USDA crop maps 2021-2025 averaged, LANDFIRE vegetation), not a survey of the ground. Maps can't see garden plantings, understory density, other beekeepers' hives, or this year's weather. Honey composition is a nectar-source estimate, not a pollen analysis. Benchmark 2026.5. How this works.